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BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – A powerful storm in the area caused a major provider of electrical power to the Mohave Electric service territory to suffer a brief outage Sunday evening. The storm caused a circuit breaker to lock open at the Davis Dam substation resulting in a brief outage to 3,745 Mohave Electric Cooperative members […]

Bullhead City, AZ – On Wednesday, August 17 at 1:13 p.m., 899 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in the Willow Valley area of Mohave Valley, lost power for approximately an hour after a utility trailer came loose from the vehicle towing it along Boundary Cone Road and crashed into a power pole tearing down the […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – On Thursday, August 11 at 5:14pm, 602 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in the eastern service area lost power for approximately two hours. This outage affected members in the Hualapais and Pinion Pine area. Extreme storms continue to plague MEC’s eastern service area. This time, lightning struck the power lines causing damage to […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – Monsoon season is upon us, and the eastern service area has been plagued by several outages this week. Equipment likely sustained damage from the previous extreme storms coming through our region. On Wednesday, August 3 at 7:51pm 2,339 members lost power for approximately 10 hours. This particular outage affected members in the […]

Bullhead City, AZ – A series of storms – as well as a motor vehicle accident – continued throughout the weekend and into Monday morning, sending Mohave Electric Cooperative crews to restore power for MEC members affected by 13 separate outages along the entire MEC service area. Bullhead City On July 30, at 9:04 pm, […]

Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative first welcomed Tyler (Ty) Elizabeth Weldon to MEC’s accounting department in 2017. Over the past 5 years, Ty has served in multiple positions within MEC’s accounting department while furthering her cooperative education through NRECA’s MIP Select and Supervisor and Manager Development Program. Current CFO Arden Lauxman has officially […]

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – Storms with heavy rain, high wind, and lightning strikes caused seven separate power outages throughout Mohave Electric Cooperative’s (MEC) eastern & western service territory from Valle Vista, Peach Springs, to Hualapai, and areas of Mohave Valley, Fort Mohave, and Bullhead City. Crews worked throughout the night and into the next day […]

Bullhead City, AZ – On Tuesday, July 19, at 8:33 a.m., 1,280 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members experienced an outage due to an underground fault. The outage affected members near McCormick Boulevard along the Highway 68 neighboring community. MEC’s substation technicians coordinated with a line crew to respond to the outage. MEC crews isolated the […]

Bullhead City, AZ – On Monday, July 11 at 2:17 p.m., 130 Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in Mohave Valley lost power due to a tree limb on an electrical line, causing a system protection device to operate. The area affected was on Dike Road and Evans Lane. MEC crews cleared the line and restored […]

Bullhead City, AZ – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) has applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) for a rate case to bring their margins back to the required levels while recovering past expenditures and continuing to ensure resources for load growth and reliability. These expenditures are made up of $45 million dollars in capital improvements […]